Home garment bagger



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HOME GARMENT BAGGER Filed Dec. 17, 1947 "EQLE- INVENTOR.

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BYWVVa/WM Patented Jan. 29, 1952 OFFICE HOME GARMENT BAGGER Carl R. Lendle, OrIando FIa. V H H Application December 17, 1947; Serial No;'7 92,208

2 Claims. (01. 226-18) This invention relates to garment baggers and more particularly to garment baggers of a lightweight portable nature suitable for use in homes and the like.

The principal object of the invention is the provision of a garment bagger for use in placing a protective garment bag over a garment on a clothes hanger such as, for example, a newly dry cleaned garment.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a garment bagger which may be readily attached to a dwelling house door.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a garment bagger which may be inexpensively formed of simple, readily available materials.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a garment bagger providing means for elevating a garment bag with respect to a garment on a clothes hanger attached thereto so that the garment may be inspected and the bag re-positioned on the garment and clothes hanger.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a garment hanger including mounting means facilitating the retention of the garment bagger in elevated position.

The garment bagger shown and described herein comprises an extremely simple and inexpensive device which may be easily and conveniently attached to a door in a dwelling house and provide a convenient device for facilitating the examination of recently dry cleaned garments by permitting the garment protecting bag normally placed over such dry cleaned garments to be elevated, the garment examined and the bag replaced on the garment. Additionally, a garment bag may be placed in elevated position on the garment bagger, a garment on a coat hanger afiixed to the garment bagger and the bag then easily lowered into position over the garment.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from" the spirit of the invention.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a door showing the garment bagger mounted thereon and in elevated relation with. respect thereto.

lowermost ends.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of a portion of a door showing a modified form of garment bagger positioned thereon; 1 l a Figure 3 is an enlarged perspective view illustrating a portion of the garment bagger shown in Figure 1. l l a Figure 4 is an enlarged perspective view showing a portion of the garment bagger illustrated inFigurel. Figure 5 is an enlarged detailed'view showing a portion of the garmentbagger shown in Figure2. .7 j

By referring to the drawings and Figuresl, 3 and 4 in particular'it will be seenthat a garment bagger has been disclosed which comprises 'a mounting bracket l0 having outturned sections II and I2, respectively, formed atits upper and Each of the outturned sections H is provided with openings I 3 and I4; respectively, the openings I 3 and-l4 being in vertical alignment withoneanother. The opening 13 is a circular opening and theopening M is a keyhole shaped opening.

An inverted elongated U-shaped body member 15 is supported by thebracket 10 by 'slidable engagement of one of the arms thereof with the openings l3 and I 4 in the said bracket. A pin [6 is positioned in the body member l5 adjacent one end thereof and is capable of beingmoved through the keyhole shaped opening 14 so as to permit the body member I5 to be lowered with respect to the bracket ID to a, point where the uppermost end ll of the body member l5 registers with the outturned section I l of the bracket By referring to Figure 3 of the drawings it will be seen that the outturned section l2 of the bracket II] has a pair of raised areas l8 positioned thereon defining a space therebetween in which the pin l6, heretofore referred to, may be positioned and retained... It will thus be seen. that at such time as the. inverted elongated U-shaped body member I5 is elevated in relation to the bracket Ill, it is supported in registry therewith by the engagement of the pin [6 on the uppermost surface of the outturned section [2 of the bracket in and retained in that position by the raised areas I8. A knurled knob I9 is provided on the bottom end of one of the arms of the body member [5 so that it may be partially rotated thereby as is necessary in moving the same downwardly with respect to the bracket I0, it being obvious that the pin 16 must be elevated to enable it to pass over the raised areas l8 and the body member !5 turned one-quarter turn so that the pin It may then register with the keyhole shaped opening M in the outturned section I2 01 the bracket ID in order to permit the body member IE to be lowered. The uppermost end I! of the body member. I5 is provided with a squared shoulder portion 20 which will register with the vertical surface of the door on which the bracket I is positioned so as to hold the body member l against rotation in the bracket H1 at such times as it is in lowermost position. I

The other. arm. portion of the inverted elongated U-shaped body member is relatively longer than the portion having the pin 16 there.- on and has a dual hook 2| affixed adjacent its lowermost end, the lower one of the-dual. hooks being provided for the reception of a garment hanger 22 and the upper one of the dual hooks 2| being provided to receive and: retain garment a bag in elevated relation on the vertical body member I 5. The'dual hook 2| is shown in enlarged detail in Figure 4 of the drawings.

In operation the garment. bagger is elevated to the" position shownin Figure. 1 of thedrawings, rotated partially to bring" the pin l6i upwardly through the key-hol'eshap'ed opening l4: and into position between the raised area's Hi. In such position the garment bag (not shown) may be positioned on the longer one of the arms of the inverted elongated U-shaped body member l5 and slid upwardly thereon until the lower edge of the garment bag may be positioned in the upper one of the dual hooksZ l. A garment to be bagged is then positioned on the coat hanger 22 and the same'hung' on the lower one of the. dual hooks 2|. The garment'bag' may then be disengaged from the upper one of the dual books 2! and moved downwardly over the garment on the coat hanger 22. The hook portion of the coat hanger 22 will emerge from the top of the garment bag where it may then be gripped and'the garment and coat hanger 22 then removed from the garment bag- 'ger. Reverseoperation whereby a bagged garment is positioned on the lower'of 'the dualhooks 2| and the garment bag elevatedon the garment bagger so that the garment may be inspected will be obvious to those skilled in the art;

While the garment bagger illustrated in Figures 1, 3 and 4 is adapted for permanent installation on a dwelling house door, for example, the inner side of a clothes cupboard door, a modified form of the garment bagger will occur to those skilled in the art as comprising a device of a similar elongated U-shaped body; member 24 afiixed thereto and extending a distance thereabove and a distance therebelow. The uppermostend' of the inverted U-shaped body member 24 is indicated" by the numeral 25 and the lower end thereof has a dual hook 26' positioned thereon;

In Figure 5 of the drawings an enlarged detail 4 of the clamping member 23 may be seen and it will be observed that spring pressed pads 2! are formed on the clamping members 23 so that tension is automatically brought on the door on which the device is positioned so that it will retain itself thereon.

It will thus be seen that a garment bagger has been disclosed which is particularly adapted for household use and that it may be conveniently positioned on a door or other supporting surface and advantageously used in placing protective bags on garments or temporarily removing such protective bags from bagged garments for the inspection thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. A. garment bagger comprising in combina tion an inverted U-shaped member, one of the arms of which is longer than the other and both arms of which are in closely spaced parallel relation to one another, a supporting bracket having vertically aligned openings therein. one of which comprises a. keyhole shaped opening; the shorter arm of the said inverted U-shaped. member rotatably and reciprocally positioned the said openings,. a pin on the. said shorter arm for registry with the said bracket when: at: right angles to said keyhole shaped opening therein for temporarily retaining the said inverted U- shaped member: in elevated. relation with respect thereto, dual hook meanson. the lower endiof' the longer one of thev of. the said inverted ushaped member for supporting a' garment bag and a garment hanger.

2. A. garment bagger' comprising. in combination a bracket having horizontally extending apertured arms and means for attachment to a vertical supportingsurface; and a rod positioned through said apertures, a secondary rod,longer' than said rod, and.- attachect to said rod at its uppermost end and positioned: along side'the said rod, said secondary rod. having dual hook means formed on the lower end thereof whereby the said rods may be moved vertically with respect to the supporting bracket, the said secondary rod form.- ing means for retaining a garment bag in elevated relation with respect to thesaid dual hook means one of which is' adapted to hold a garment to be bagged.

CARL R. LENDLE.

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